
I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle

I want to ride my bicycle

I want to ride my bike

I want to ride my bicycle


I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle

I want to ride my bicycle

I want to ride my bike

I want to ride my bicycle


A large living subject. A tree, photographed at night.

A man-made, woman-shaped large subject, made of stone. This is the “floozie in the jacuzzi” of Birmingham, officially known as “The River”.

Almost as large as rocks can get on earth, the Eiger in Switzerland.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge asking for large subjects. More of these can be found here.





For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: words with a double letter.
More bull or other double letters, can be found here.

A courtyard in the old part of town where an old streetlamp has found shelter from the urban renewal going on outside.
For Black & White Sunday, a trace of the past. More traces can be found here.



For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge with the theme structure. More structured photos can be found here.






Patterns in large and in small architecture throughout the ages (from 774 to 2017).
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge, patterns found outdoors. More patterns are only a click away.


Cee didn’t ask for a specific topic in her Black & White Photo Challenge. More contributions can be found here.



For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Corners.
More interpretation of the theme can be found here.

I adore half-timbered houses and they are so well suited to monochrome photos because of the stark contrast they display.

This house stands in the old part of town of Weinheim.

This one in the even older part of the town (although many don’t know this). Both are a few hundred years old.

A farmhouse from the Odenwald showing the typical stone foundation with the half-timbered first floor and a later finished attic floor with shingles.
All these examples are from the southwest of Germany. But I was in the north a few weeks ago and the styles in houses is completely different.

The contrast in the brickwork again is ideally suited to monochrome photography.

Contrast it is also with this heavily ornamented house.

The sepia-toned photography makes this house – it is part of the monastry of Lorsch, a UNESCO world heritage site – timeless. It could have been taken 100 years ago, or last summer (which it was).
This is for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge with the subject of — houses.
